ISO MANURES. 



his composting will have already been done. As the 

 spring opens, he will find a great quantity of manure 

 in his yard, under his barn, in his pig-pen, under the 

 necessary and at the sink-spout, already composted 

 and fit for use. The work will have been done at 

 times when the business of the farm was less driving 

 than in April and May. The manure is fit for use 

 this year. He is not to lie out of the use of it twelve 

 months, as when manure is kept over for the sake of 

 more perfect fermentation. If he wishes some of it to 

 be warmer than he finds it, for the sake of starting 

 early crops ; or if that in the barn-yard is to be car- 

 ried some distance^ and he wishes to divest it of a part 

 of its water, to make it lighter, he has but to throw it 

 up into piles and allow it to ferment a few days. The 

 same operation will both make it lighter to carry and 

 warm for his seeds. 



338. I have no doubt that this composting of ma- 

 nures at the place where they are made is the most 

 economical and the best, as a general rule. There are 

 three reasons for it : it preserves the manure more per- 

 fectly ; it permits the principal labor to be done at odd 

 spells, and at times when the teams can be spared for 

 it ; and it secures a gradual ripening, and a more per- 

 fect preparation of the manure at the very time when 

 it is wanted. 



339. There may, however, be exceptions to the rule. 

 Suppose a piece of ground, designed for corn next 

 year, to be a mile from the barn, and that the farmer's 

 peat land lies in the same direction, He is unwilling 



